“WE'LL NOT TOLER YOUR XIU ...”: TOMBING GENERATION, FASHION AND IDENTIARY POLICY
Identity Policy; Black youth; Black aesthetics.
The body is the main support of the subject to project itself in the world, enabling
the imposition of their desires or reproducing social models,
communicating the identity construction of certain groups. For many
legitimized body aesthetics was coordinated by a dominant minority
that dictated what should be elegant, trend or accepted by
society. The Tombamento Generation stands out in Brazilian society,
building a body aesthetics and political positions that question
and compromise the domination of the imposed culture, seeking to weaken the
structural racism and valuing black culture in the Atlantic and / or diaspora. THE
existence of movements, groups and / or collectives, which cross history and
reaffirm the need for the existence, re-existence and resistance of the black population in
their societies justify the research presented. The main objective is
investigate the ways in which the Tumbling Generation (re) builds and
legitimizes its aesthetic and sociopolitical identity, resignifying its space,
group and society, with a view to tensing the relations between body,
and aesthetics of individuals. The methodology considered the data collection
investigating works by authors in various fields (history,
sociology, anthropology and fashion) in order to promote a broad knowledge of the
researched theme, besides the field research that affirmed the existence of the
researched through intensive direct observation,
unstructured interviews, where we collected data pertinent to the research,
analyzing the content as well as the life story and its relationship with the
proposed group.